History, nation, and form in Peter Abraham's Wild Conquest

AUTHOR(S)

Green, Michael

PUB. DATE

June 1996

SOURCE

Research in African Literatures;Summer96, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p1

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Literary Criticism

ABSTRACT

Examines the book `Wild Conquest,' by Peter Abraham, which shows little of the resurgence of nationalism evident in South African black politics of the 1940s. When the book was published; Black nationalism's low organizational profile in the 1930s; Description of the contents of the book; In `Wild Conquest' failure is drawn from another ally in the history of the South African nationalist struggle; What was contained by black political movements.